It allows people to assist or thank content providers and in return, they get some perks. These come in the form of,
in my case, Patreon only videos, un-used footage, archive footage, behind the scenes footage etc..

I have a lot of footage that never makes the shows, so I am planning to put it out on Patreon in the form of short
(less than 10 minute) videos. Examples of the kind of videos to expect are;

Archive and higher quality video of past Replay events.

Behind the scenes of the show (playing games, testing hardware, editing etc)